[wix-users] execution context for an All-Users install

[Blair Murri]

If the MSI was launched directly by the user (meaning the elevation prompt came from Windows Installer) then non-deferred custom actions run as the launching user account without elevation and deferred non-impersonated actions run as SYSTEM.



I don't know the launching account for group deployments. It used to be SYSTEM, I don't know if that ever changed.



Blair Murri



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From: Alan Sinclair via wix-users<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 7:11 AM
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Cc: Alan Sinclair<mailto:anadem at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] execution context for an All-Users install



in particular I need to know the context for a custom action dll

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Alan Sinclair <anadem at gmail.com> wrote:

> During an interactive All-Users install we know the process is elevated so
> that it can install to %ProgramFiles% but what user context is it running
> under? SYSTEM or the current user that initiated the installer?
>
>  During an automated install (pushed out as a group policy object) what
> user context are we running under, is it SYSTEM?
>
> thanks
>
> Alan
>

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